civodul pushed a commit to branch master in repository maintenance. commit 9feeeeda4f4dac2906b0b64b53d90936643330d0 Author: Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> Date: Sun Oct 11 21:35:41 2015 +0200
announcements: Add entry for Cyril's PyConFR talk. --- doc/announcements/savannah/pyconfr.txt | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/announcements/savannah/pyconfr.txt b/doc/announcements/savannah/pyconfr.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c33011 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/announcements/savannah/pyconfr.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Bonjour ! Cyril Roelandt of Red Hat who works on OpenStack will be [http://www.pycon.fr/2015/schedule/presentation/47/ giving a talk] about Guix-Tox at PyConFR in Pau, France, on October 17th. + +[https://git.framasoft.org/Steap/guix-tox Guix-Tox] is a young variant of the [http://tox.testrun.org/ Tox] "virtualenv" management tool for Python that uses [http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-environment.html guix environment] as its back-end. In essence, while Tox restricts itself to building pure Python environments, Guix-Tox takes advantages of Guix to build complete environments, including dependencies that are outside Tox's control, thereby improving [...] + +If you're around, do not miss the talk. If you're a Pythonista, you can help by providing feedback on Guix-Tox! + +== About GNU Guix == + +[http://www.gnu.org/software/guix GNU Guix] is a functional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution or GuixSD is an advanced distribution of the GNU system that relies on GNU Guix and [http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html respects the user's freedom]. + +In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. Guix uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, except that packages are defined as native [http://www.gnu.org/software/guile Guile] modules, using extensions to the [http://schemers.org Scheme] language. GuixSD offers a declarative approach to operating system configuration management, and is [...] + +GuixSD can be used on an i686 or x86_64 machine. It is also possible to use Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on mips64el and armv7.